hex2d ago

But if *I* hijack *their* devices it's a "felony."

https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog

In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.

Include Security Research Blog
Show threadLucie / minute
@Hex omg so that's the explanation for what's hitting our gitlab, i already blocked over 1.5 million IPs! > Bright Data is a data-collection company that sells access to what it markets as the world’s largest residential proxy network of 400M+ home IP addresses that its customers route web-scraping traffic through.
Jun 7 at 11:43amTusky
Show threadgeist1d ago
@mntmn @Hex Yepp. This is also what “free VPN”s do, and there are also companies that pay people to add such code to their apps: https://infatica-sdk.io/
Show threadJonathan Corbet1d ago
@mntmn @Hex It's not just those bozos ... some folks at opscloudio.com asked if they could run banners on our site selling the same sort of SDK. We declined...
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